Project Details

INCLUSION

INCLUSION will address a number of challenges related to the accessibility of public transport in remote urban/rural areas and neighbourhoods. The project will investigate the current conditions across a representative set of European prioritised areas, understanding the relevant needs of various vulnerable user and social groups and assessing how novel transport solutions involving social innovation and ICT tools can help raise the level of accessibility, inclusiveness and equity of mobility.

Project details

Project goal

To investigate and understand the main characteristics of prioritised areas as well as the relevant factors that influence mobility and accessibility

To identify the user and social groups most exposed to transport accessibility issues and inequality in the different type of areas and undertake a comprehensive analysis of their mobility requirements

To understand how ICT tools, service and social innovation can help individuals to cope with accessibility issues and improve or increase inclusivity and transport equity for the concerned user groups.

To identify and critically assess existing innovative, efficient, affordable, inclusive, equitable and economically viable forms of public transport, with a particular focus on the use of ICT applications and on

transferability potentials for both the prioritised areas and social groups

To undertake experimental validation of innovative elements and ideas aimed to enhance transport accessibility in selected prioritised areas and transport environments for the concerned vulnerable users

To undertake a quantitative assessment of the impacts and a qualitative process evaluation in selected innovative transport solutions validated in the INCLUSION experimental sites

To investigate, develop and consolidate business concepts and models related to the assessed accessible transport options with the aim of transferring these findings to other European contexts

To disseminate and promote the identified innovations, transferable solutions and recommendations with the aim of fostering the adoption of accessible, inclusive and equitable mobility solutions for

European prioritised areas and vulnerable user groups

Results

INCLUSION will produce a set of innovative solutions which will be tested in the so-called Innovation Pilot Labs, a mix of urban, peri-/sub-urban and rural target areas in Europe:

Rhein-Sieg region - Germany

Flanders region - Belgium

Budapest urban area – Hungary

Florence metropolitan area – Italy

Barcelona peri-urban area and neighbouring conurbation – Spain

Cairngorms Natural Park rural area – UK, Scotland

The project expects to:

understand the main transport challenges in different types of prioritised areas.

provide an in-depth examination of ten innovative public transport approaches and a wider catalogue of at least forty case studies of accessible, inclusive and equitable transport solutions.

deliver a set of recommendations and mobility solutions for vulnerable users’ communities.

Role of Rupprecht Consult

Rupprecht leads the work package involving field and desk research to study and critically assess inclusive mobility options and good practice in 50 case studies across Europe (WP3), as well as leading a task on qualitative process evaluation (WP5) and acting as support partner for VRS (Pilot Lab) in their user needs analysis (WP4).